I was reading Nishankji's stories. Short stories, touching stories, touching life, seem to touch rural, hilly areas. If you delve into them now, you will get pain and it will leave so many questions behind.

When I read the list of Nishankji's compositions, I am not talking about reading the compositions, then I acknowledged his calibre.

Writing is a spiritual practice, if the feelings have been put into words, then it should be understood that it is an original form, and has taken concrete form, wants some shape, so the journey ahead begins.

I congratulate Nishankji. But the sensation, which is of heart, should not die and when a person feels his sensation as the sensation of the whole country and society, then a change happens.

(Excerpts of Atal's speech on the inauguration of Nisbankji's book-

'Khade Hut Prashn', a collection of stories, on 22" May 2007)